Overweight in mediating the association between depression and new-onset diabetes: A population-based research from Health and Retirement Study

Table 1 The baseline health status of the population and the inter-group distribution of new-onset diabetes during 1998-2016

Characteristic	All respondents, unweighted No. (weighted %)	Weighted (%)		P value
		Non-new-onset diabetes (n = 7204)	New-onset diabetes (n = 2222)
Depression	1909 (20.3)	19.0	22.5	0.002
Overweight	6226 (66.1)	60.6	83.3	< 0.001
Ethnicity				< 0.001
Hispanic	555 (5.9)	3.9	7.1
Others	8871 (94.1)	96.1	92.9
Degree				< 0.001
Bachelor's degree and above	2217 (23.5)	26.9	20.9
Others	7209 (76.5)	73.1	79.1
Male	3837 (40.7)	42.4	46.5	0.003
Age (year)				< 0.001
≥ 75	1466 (15.6)	16.7	8.5
< 75	7960 (84.4)	83.3	91.5
Smoke	1744 (18.5)	20.9	23.0	0.091
Drink	5204 (55.2)	60.1	53.5	< 0.001
Marital	6501 (68.7)	66.5	67.1	0.674
Exercise	4670 (49.5)	51.5	46.4	< 0.001

Data were reported in n (%). P value derived from χ² test, and noted that weighted result.